• Pitch & report trend stories, such as “Surviving Breast Cancer” package for which I won an award, “Life after Katrina” packages, “Financing Plastic Surgery,” “Kid Angels,” and “Teen Tanning”
• 1998 Peter Lisagor Award for Exemplary Journalism, best magazine feature, awarded by Society of Professional Journalists/Chicago Headline Club for "Surviving Breast Cancer", People (10/26/98)

Entreprenuer (Write on small business issues for flagship magazine and its custom publications)